Upcoming Speaking events in British Columbia:
TOPIC: “2012, EDGAR CAYCE AND THE MAYA”
Comox Valley: Thursday, May 28th 7 to 9 PM
Nanaimo: Thursday, June 4TH, 7 TO 9 PM
TOPIC: SECRETS OF A PSYCHIC
Nanaimo: Saturday, May 30th, all day seminar
I’ll also be presenting “2012, Edgar Cayce and the Maya” in Richmond, Virginia on Saturday, June 20th, 3 to 5 PM.
Details and contact information to follow.
Hope to see you there!
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You might be thinking, as a certain reader wrote to be yesterday in reference to the stela with the carving of the 41.9 billion billion billion Long Count Calendar date on a stela in Coba, “What does your intuition say?”
I replied: My intuition is soooo confused and I was sooooo exhausted tramping around that huge Coba ruin. OK, I know that there’s something really important about Coba. Not sure if this is it or not. And, still not really sure if this is the correct stela since the carvings are so weathered that my conscious mind says, “You’ve got to be kidding. How could anyone see anything on these stelae?” Actually, the guidebook says that when the sun is at certain angles the weathered carvings pop out. I can believe that since it happened to me when I was in Chichen Itza this last time and, for the first time, saw and photographed a certain bas relief carving of an ancient warrior that one guide told me was Itzamna. When I visited Chichen Itza a year ago, I could hardly see the details of the carving. However, this time, the sun was in the exactly correct place and the image almost leaped off the rock! It looked as if it was outlined in black.
We had a rest-from-filming day today. However, at breakfast, while relaxing with the wind blowing off the beautiful turquoise water of the Caribbean, a young man and father at the next restaurant table leaned back and asked us, “Been here before?”
When we answered in the affirmative, he then asked, “Know anywhere cheaper to eat?”
“Sure,” we replied, “You won’t believe it, because you’re going to expect that everything at the ruins is so much more expensive, but our favorite and cheapest restaurant around here is at the Tulum ruins . . . the Argentinian restaurant. It also has the best coffee in the whole of the Yucatan!”
“Wait a minute,” the young man said, “Are you saying there are restaurants at the ruins?”
Obviously, this affable young man had never been to a ruin before.
“Yeah, sure, there is often at least one restaurant and also usually many craft stalls. Actually, Tulum, being about a 2 hour drive from Cancun, is inundated with tourists. It has a little train pulled by a tractor that takes you to the entrance of the ruins, many restaurants, tons of craft shops . . . it’s like a circus.”
The young man looked over at his lovely young wife and their two elementary-school aged sons. “Are you saying that the kids would find it interesting at an ancient Mayan ruin?”
I could see Miriam, who was sitting across the plata de fruta from me, started to roll her eyes because I knew she knew what was coming. Her mom and step-dad where about to wax eloquent about the ruins at Tulum and they might just go on and on and on.
“Heck,” I said, “The kids will love it! There’s a guy dressed up with feathers along his arms and a very realistic- looking imitation hawk’s head over his head. He spreads his wings and poses for tourist pictures. There’s also these amazing acrobats from some indigenous tradition who, dressed in their native costumes, climb a long pole while one of them plays a flute. Once they get to the top, they drop backwards tethered by a rope and slowly circle upside down until they are low enough to the ground to summersault onto their feet.”
“The best thing is the iguana,” John said.
“What?” asked the young man. His sons were definitely interested in what we were saying now.
“The iguana,” John repeated. “This guy carries around a huge ignuana. It’s tail is so long, it touches the ground when the man carries the reptile against his shoulder. The iguana’s body is almost three feet long and about 6 inches thick. You can come up to it and pet it or, for a small fee, the guy will put it across your shoulders with the tail draped down your front.”
The little boys’ eyes opened wide.
“Face it,” Miriam piped in, “if you get bored with the ruins – but my Mom and Dad never seem to – you can always go swimming . . . ”
“In a ruin?” the young man quipped.
“In the Tulum ruin,” Miriam replied. “Tulum has a fantastic beach and a beautiful protected cove. Many people come to Tulum just to swim. Forget about the ruins.”
“You mean, the water is less choppy and the wind less intense than it is here in Akumal?” the lovely young mother asked.
“Tulum beaches are some of the best in the world,” Miriam answered. “Your kids will love it. You will love it.”
The rest of the morning, Miriam and I lay on beach beds on the sand between our hotel and Half Moon Bay in Akumal. We enjoyed the sound of the surf, the refreshing breeze, and conversations about many things both about the movie we were making and anything else that came to mind. John swam and snorkeled past the pounding surf over the coral at the foot of the sand bar.
We ate Fritos with lime (Fritos also come with chile and lime flavoring here) for lunch and then headed out to Yal-Ku, a lovely snorkelling area where the salt water flows inland and is protected by limestone headlands. The water here was smooth and calm. The howling wind was a breeze.
We saw many beautiful parrot fish, some kind of turquoise fish, and the funniest, strangest fish I’ve ever seen in the wild. It was only about 3 inches long, had big protruding eyes like a frog, was reddish-brown colored, had a big head compared to the rest of its body and tapered to a small point of a flat tail. It liked to hide under the limestone rocks that hung over the water.
It looked so unusual that Miriam and I wanted to give it a name. Because it looked so unique, we named it Hermoine (after our beloved Harry Potter character), the slug fish.
It’s a good life.
Blessings,
Carol Chapman
Copyright (c) 2009 Carol Chapman
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Hi again,
Today, we are in Akumal, an area known as the most Americanized part of the Riviera Maya.
Strangely, as we entered the well-manicured yards, tiled sidewalks, and area of luxurious condos, my gut felt tight and I realized I felt afraid. Of what, I don’t know – that I’m not wealthy enough, cool enough, or that I couldn’t compete well enough . .. . something like that.
In the modest Mayan villages there was more of a feeling of people helping each other out.
I was unable to write yesterday because my mini laptop/netbook developed a connection problem at the more Americanized hotel where we are staying. Ironic, isn’t it?
Today, I’m in a noisy internet cafe with kids playing on a pinball machine and a slightly sticky mouse. That’s OK, at least I can communicate with you today.
Yesterday, we scourged the huge Coba ruin, to find something I could not find last year – the stela with the Long Count Calendar Date of 41.9 billion billion billion years into the future. I think we found it.
This is an important stela because it proves that the Mayan Long Count Calendar does not end on December 21, 2012, if the ancient Maya carved a date 41.9 billion billion billion years into the future. Furthermore, it proves that the ancient Maya did not believe the world would end in 2012.
Today, we were in Tulum, the gorgeous Caribbean seaside ruin, to find and videotape images of Itzamna. This time, I’m sure these are actual images of the son of the creator god, Hunab K’u. Many Tulum guides brought tourists to the place that Victor Olalde our Chichen Itza friend and guide, had told us would be there.
I am feeling pretty good. At last, I know for sure, that I have an image of Itzamna, the old wise prophet.
Carol Chapman
Copyright (c) 2009 Carol Chapman
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Last night, we visited our friend Victor Olalde. He had been our guide in Chichen Itza a year ago. He always knows a lot and shares with us.
I’m looking for an image of Izamna, the Maya equivalent of Christ – son of the creator god, Hunab K’u. Victor said we would find the image carved on the east wall of the Nunnery building beyond the Observatory at the Chichen Itza ruins.
We woke early, checked out of the hotel and headed to the ruins. it was strange to walk along the entrance path and NOT see any craft vendors. Some were setting their stalls up but none approached us to buy their wares. It felt good.
We knew, from our Moon handbook, that the Nunnery Building would be a long walk on this huge site, which is traditionally known as Itzamna’s ceremonial center.
We finally got to the building and saw the carving over the doorway just as Victor had said. Only a couple of German tourists shared the space with us. I set up my video camera on its tripod so I would be sure to get the image without any camera movement.
After a couple of minutes, an ancient Mayan guard turned up and told me I could not use a tripod. So, I took the camera off the tripod, telescoped the tripod legs and took the rest of my footage. The old guard also said the image was not Itzamna. I don’t know who to believe – Victor or the old guard.
We also quickly took footage to illustrate information I’d learned in the archives of Hacienda Chichen yesterday – that August Le Plongeon had excavated the Platforma de Venus. We also photographed and videotaped the chac mool that I believe Alice Le Plongeon, his wife, found with her psychic powers. Did I tell you that Alice also had memories of Atlantis and that was one of the reasons the Le Plongeons were in Chichen Itza . . . because they thought the site had an association with the lost continent.
At 10, we had an appointment with Jose at Hacienda Chichen. Miriam is considering being a volunteer with local Maya people for a month or so, which the Hacienda arranges. Jose is not only an elder-in-training, but also the head of their volunteer program.
He told us that he is presently too young to be consider as an elder. You can only be an elder after the age of 52.
Jose took us to his village where we saw children in the local school, the room where they ate and the infirmary associated with the school. The school meal area has been improved by Belisa Barancache, the “keeper” of Hacienda Chichen.
I loved the beautiful children’s inquisitive eyes. The little ones crowded around the back of the video camera to see the moving image being recorded.
My favorite part of the tour with Jose was a visit to a very traditionally Maya village in which women, in a business cooperative, were making the beautifully embroidered traditional white dresses called huiptil on sewing machines outside under the protection of a roof of a building in the village center. They spoke in Mayan. I asked to take their “photographia . . . OK?” They nodded.
I got some great pictures of some lovely women. I feel so happy to have seen the women – about a dozen of them – drawing the patterns on the cloth and then embroidering the design in bright colors on their sewing machines.
Carol Chapman
Copyright (c) 2009 Carol Chapman
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Today, I’m working on reserving accommodations in the Yucatan, Mexico, for the final shooting of my 2012 Doomsday Movie.
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Here’s an excerpt from a blogspot on 2012 that, I believe, comes from Russia or the Ukraine or one of the Slavic countries since many of the links are in Cyrillic Script.
What this means to me is that people in Russia, the Ukraine, or other Slavic countries are thinking about and aware of the 2012 Doomsday Prophecies.
Here’s the cute quote from Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki who appears to be a physics professor at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Australia!!! Wow! This 2012 prophecy stuff really get around!
OK, Here’s Dr. Karl:
“…when a calendar comes to the end of a cycle, it just rolls over into the next cycle. In our Western society, every year 31 December is followed, not by the End of the World, but by 1 January. So 13.0.0.0.0 in the Mayan calendar will be followed by 0.0.0.0.1 – or good-ol’ 22 December 2012, with only a few shopping days left to Christmas.” – Excerpt from Dr Karl’s “Great Moments in Science“.
360 degrees review: No Doomsday in 2012
Maybe the blogspot has Cyrillic Script on it because Vladimir Korsakov, the writer of this post, is bilingual in English and Russian or another Cyrillic Script language.
Check it out!
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Here’s a description of one of many intriguing 2012 videos on this blog site.
With the airing of “Nostradamus;2012? on the History Channel 01/04/09, Homey3 gives insight to the prophecies of 2012 and how Nostradamus even prophesied years after 2012 and talks about “God” with introduction to the book: Prophecies with a Divine Answer!!!
2012 Nostradamus | 2012 Survival Blog
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The Dream Network Teleseminar
When: 8:30 to 9:30 PM Daylight Savings Time
Date: Tuesday (in 2 days), March 10th, 2009
Who: Carol Chapman with guest Nick Caple, former dream interpretation columnist for Edgar Cayce Canada’s Open Road
Where: The comfort of your own home on your telephone
How:
| For the telephone number and passcode, please register on this blog! Thanks, Carol Chapman |
What to Bring: Your dreams, your questions, your inquiring mind!
Purpose: To develop a community of people that help each other to access soul guidance and metaphysical information with a focus on dreams. Through dreams you can access your life purpose, health advice, answers to relationship and financial questions . . . and much more.
Cost: Totally Fr.e.e Complimentary Teleseminar. The only cost is your regular long distance telephone fee
Anything else? After the dream interpretation time, we can discuss other topics such as orbs, crop circles, and 2012.
Talk with you then! Print this out and pin it up where you can see it.
Wishing you love, success, and happiness . . .
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Since the December 21, 2012 date comes from a translation of Mayan glyphs, I believe it is important to find out what Maya people say about 2012. Here’s an excerpt of a letter from Mayan Elder Hunbatz Men of the Itza tradition in northern Yucatan:
We the Mayans who have not been cultured by the Western
Culture do not agree with all the negative things our sacred
calendars have been involved in.
Mayan Elders Speak about 2012 – Authors of Idiots Guide to 2012
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This is a quote from a letter sent from Hunbatz Men, Mayan Elder in the Itza tradition to Colin Andrews who is co-author of The Idiot’s Guide to 2012. It appears that, according to Hunbatz Men, 2012 is not an issue for native Maya.
the belief of
the year 2012 was invented by the American archaeologist Eric Thompson when he visited
the archaeological site of COBA, Mexico. He claimed he found that information in that place.
Mayan Elders Speak about 2012 – Authors of Idiots Guide to 2012
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